Homework #21 - Botnets - Due Thursday May 8, 1PM
Turn in this assignment via email by the due date.
Read the paper
A Multifaceted Approach to Understanding the Botnet Phenomenon, Moheeb Abu Rajab, Jay Zarfoss, Fabian Monrose, Andreas Terzis, IMC 2006
The usual: briefly write up (a few sentences each) your views of:
- What are the main contributions of this paper?
- What parts of the paper do you find unclear?
- What parts of the paper are questionable? (That is, you think a
conclusion may be wrong or an approach technically flawed.)
- Given the contributions of the paper, what issues remain for the topic
it addresses? What related ideas does it bring to mind?
If there are particular elements of your mini-review for which you'd like
direct feedback, indicate them in your writeup.
Optional additional papers:
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Revealing Botnet Membership Using DNSBL Counter-Intelligence, Anirudh Ramachandran, Nick Feamster and David Dagon, SRUTI 2006
Wide-scale Botnet Detection and Characterization, Anestis Karasaridis, Brian Rexroad, David Hoeflin, HotBots 2007